Spreen, E. (2013) On duality transformations of the electromagnetic field tensor in non-linear modifications of classical electrodynamics. Bachelor's Thesis, Physics.
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Abstract
A review of SO(2) duality transformations in classical electrodynamics is given, followed by an investigation of constraints on general theories that possess a similar duality invariance. As an example, Born-Infeld theory is shown to pos- sess such a symmetry. The general constraints on a theory of one field are the indepence of the Lagrangian density on the potential and a first-order partial differential equation of the Lagrangian density in the field strength tensor.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor's Thesis) |
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| Degree programme: | Physics |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's Thesis |
| Language: | English |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Feb 2018 07:53 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Feb 2018 07:53 |
| URI: | https://fse.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/11123 |
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